Garritan purchases GIGA from Tascam

Last year, Tascam dropped all GIGA family off development. Since then, there’s no news related to GIGA announced from Tascam. Until now, I think this is one of the very interesting news from MusikMesse’09, Tascam announces that GIGA technology has been purchased by Garritan.

Garritan is the maker of Garritan Personal Orchestra (GPO). I didn’t use it but I used Garritan Jazz&Big Band. These two products used Native Instruments’ Kontakt engine. This should be a big change after GIGA purchasing. The next sample library & virtual instruments from Garritan may be GVI (GIGA Virtual Instrument). I’ve no comment if it would be better or worse because I’ve never use any GIGA product. Anyway, I’m sure there will be many changes in Garritan’s products. Garritan didn’t announce their plan what to do with these GIGA things yet. Let’s wait ‘n see.